Awards

Gary R. Purdy - Following bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alberta, Gary pursued doctoral studies at McMaster and a post-doctoral research fellowship before joining the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (1963). His career has followed a lifelong interest in metallurgical thermodynamics and phase transformations related to the development of microstructures, involving solid-liquid interactions, interfacial diffusion, solid state precipitation and grain boundary mobility. He has supervised the research of more than 100 graduate students and research fellows. Industrial interactions have included work on thermal/mechanical processing of advanced steels, solidification processing and homogenization of multicomponent alloys, and machinability of alloys. He is one of eight McMaster Distinguished University Professors and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, CIM, ASM and TMS. He is a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, holds a Doctorate "Honoris Causa" from the Institut National Polytechnic de Grenoble and is a recipient of the Canadian Metal Physics Medal and the Sawarmura and Guimaraes Medals of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan.